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• SocGen: Blue bonds push is a 'positive move'

  14 May 2025

  Although cautious about the need for additional sustainable bond labels, Société Générale argues that 'blue bonds' are a "positive"...

• Natural Capital Investment Americas 2025 conference round-up

  14 May 2025

  The event in New York highlighted that, despite challenging market conditions, enthusiasm and commitment to the theme remains. Genevieve Redgrave reports

  

• Invesco: MDBs proved the big challenge for our blended finance fund

  13 May 2025

  Invesco said multilateral development banks (MDBs) have proved the major "challenge" when it comes to raising its emerging market blended finance fund for climate adaptation.

• 'Extremely challenging' for US farmers to integrate carbon credits, says Agriculture Capital

  13 May 2025

  Difficult market conditions deter US farmers from looking at carbon projects, despite positive opportunities for farmers elsewhere, Agriculture Capital has told Environmental Finance.

• Actis bags $1.7bn for 'long-life' infra fund

  13 May 2025

  Sustainable infrastructure investor Actis has secured $1.7 billion for its second long-life infrastructure fund.

• Sustainable bonds still present 'challenge' for EU 'dark green' funds

  13 May 2025

  EU regulatory focus on 'look-through' impact assessment for labelled sustainable bond investments poses a challenge for EU 'dark green' funds, according to MainStreet Partners - despite strong compliance between sustainable bonds and Paris-Aligned Benchmarks (PAB).

• Bezos Earth Fund: We need 'an operating system for valuing nature'

  13 May 2025

  Peter Cripps live from New York

• Sustainable debt market poised for rebound in coming months, ING predicts

  13 May 2025

  A pipeline of sustainability-themed bonds suggests the coming months may see a market rebound amid temporary relief from US tariffs which fed uncertainty and restrained corporate issuance, according to a credit strategist at ING.

• Cautious optimism as banking regulators hold firm on climate risk work

  13 May 2025

  The outcome of a meeting of the global banking regulators on the Basel Committee was "not as bad as it could have been" with regard to their climate-related financial risk activities, but there remains uncertainty about the future of some of its significant projects.

• Weyerhaeuser to expand carbon credit projects

  13 May 2025

  Timberland giant Weyerhaeuser is to continue expanding its carbon credit business but urged to Environmental Finance that more simplification and automation is needed in the carbon markets.